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Southern Africa and Islands

Zambia
ZCCM-IH sends bosses to Paris to reassure investors

As the state-owned holding concern Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines-Investments Holdings [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.11.2016

Mozambique
Who are the new directors named to EDM’s board ?

Four months after four members of Electricidade de Mocambique’s board were suspended (AEI 773) the country’s minerals and energy minister [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Angola
Cobalt's behaviour in Luanda infuriates its shareholders

Accused by its shareholders of corruption in Angola and of hiding the poor results of drilling on two blocks in the country, Cobalt now has to explain itself in court.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Mozambique
Technip puts down roots in Maputo with JGC

The French oil services company Technip, which was picked by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Angola
Shoving aside differences, Chevron and Sonangol advance in Cabinda

Although state-owned Sonangol has recently been reported to be behind [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Angola
Vaalco pulling out for good

Despite an uptick in its revenue in the third quarter [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

South Africa
Africa Energy’s coffers depleted by acquisition of block 2B

In the wake of its acquisition of a 90% stake [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Madagascar
President Hery draws up his shopping list for the CBI

Antananarivo’s ambitious demands from its international donors do not appear in line with its political will.

Subscribers only Business 11.11.2016

Mozambique
Emopesca has found Chinese allies

The Mozambican national fisheries company Emopesca (Empresa Moçambicana de Pescas), joined forces in October with some Chinese investors to create [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.11.2016

Madagascar
Droit Humain Freemasons form their own federation

The Malagasy branch of the mixed-gender freemasons order Le Droit [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.11.2016

Comoros islands
Juwa France wants Sambi to stand up to Azali

The members of the Juwa party of former President Ahmed [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.11.2016

Madagascar
Who is the new "mayor" of Antananarivo?

It was a consensual candidate that Malagasy President Hery Rajaonarimampianina [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.11.2016

Mozambique
Moroccan construction industry leader plants its flag in Maputo

The large Moroccan group Somagec has just settled down in [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.11.2016

Seychelles
A mysterious buyer for Afren's blocks

The two offshore licences (areas A and B) that were [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.11.2016

Madagascar
Malagasy businessmen eyeing Rabat

A sign of the warming relations between the Kingdom of [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.11.2016

Mozambique
A prince, a countess… and maybe a river of diamonds?

Founded at the end of September in the city of Pemba, the mining explorer Minas do Lurio has been born [...]

Free access Mining 08.11.2016

Zimbabwe
Mines ministry poised to inaugurate an on-line land registry

In late October employees of Vancouver-based Spatial Dimension were in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2016

Namibia
Will Oman's phosphates ever get off the runway?

Less than two months after receiving a green light from [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2016

Zambia
ZCCM-IH hopes to recover money from First Quantum

The state-owned holding concern Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines-Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2016

Zambia
World Bank puts up $350,000 for EITI

The World Bank’s board confirmed a $350,000 subsidy in late [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2016

South Africa
Crown Energy bosses were right to hold out

The Swedish junior Crown Energy was the only operator on block 2B in South Africa to resist selling all of its shares to Africa Energy. Its executives are now sitting pretty on the A-J1 find.

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

Namibia
TriStone Africa pins highest hopes on onshore blocks

In late October William Saarbach, chairman of the explorer TriStone Africa, was in Windhoek notably in order to finalize the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

Angola, Mozambique
Dams collaterally damaged by Petrobras scandal

Because of a freeze on loans by Banco Nacional do Desenvolvimento (BNDES) as a result of the corruption scandal involving [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

Mozambique
Leticia Klemens likely to unite all of Frelimo's factions when it comes to gas

After a three week gap following the dismissal of mineral resources minister Pedro Couto (AEI 779), Mozambique president Filipe Nyusi [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

Zambia
Lusaka puts pressure on Luanda to have its pipeline

Zambia’s energy minister, David Mabumba, is determined to revive a project for a pipeline linking Lusaka to the Angolan city of Lubito to import oil to Zambia.

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

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